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CIA

CTIA INFORMATION REPORT

01/04/63
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PFUNTNER, JORDAN J.

UNDIMINISHED PRESTIG

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OF FIDEL CASTRO IN LATIN AMERICA

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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RELEASED WITH DELETIONS

09/22/97

COMPLETION OF REVIEW BY CIA.
COORDINATION WITH CIA HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND
DETERMINED TO BE RELEASABLE, PER LTR DTD 23 SEP 97.

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

th is material contains information affecting the Natio onal Defense. of the United States within the meaning of the Ess wonage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C Secs

793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prahibited by law.

CLASSIFICATION —- DISSEMINATION CONTROLS

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COUNTRY CUBA/LATIN AMERICA -REFORTNO. DCS ~3/532 , 860
, SUBJECT  YNDIMINISHED PRESTIGE OF FIDEL CASTRO OCATEDISTR 4 JANUARY 1963
IN LATIN AMERICA

. PRECEDENCE ROUTINE

DATE OF- - DECEMBER 1962 _ REFERENCES

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| DATE ACQ.
APPRAISAL 3. FIELD REPORTNO, OEL—-34 ,413

| THIS Is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT I$ TENTATIVE.

| SOURCE AN OFFICIAL BRITISH SERVICE FROM "A REGULAR SOURCE, QUOTING A.
YUGOSLAV JOURNALIST WHO RECENTLY TOURED LATIN AMERICA,”

emanated
1. FIDEL CASTRO HAS LOST LITTLE PRESTIGE AMONG HIS SUPPORTERS
IN LATIN AMERICA AS RESULT RECENT CRISIS. IN EYES OF HIS DISCIPLES,
THE UNITED STATES FAILED TO EXPLOIT AN OPPORTUNITY TO UNSEAT HIM,
AND CASTRO REMAINED IN POWER, oe
2, LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNIST PARTIES HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY  *
DIVIDED BETWEEN VIOLENT AND NON-VIOLENT FACTIONS, THIS CONTROVERSY
1S LIKELY TO RESULT IN INDIVIDUAL COMMUNIST PARTIES ADOPTING MORE
INDEPENDENT AND FELXIBLE POLICIES. THERE 1S A GENERAL TREND AGAINST
POLICIES "DICTATED FROM OUTSIDE .” | fe ’

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BRITISH COMMENTS.
A, ‘THE IMPRESSION DESCRIBED IN PARA 1 DOES NOT

i AGREE ENTIRELY WITH INFORMATION FROM OTHER SGURCES T IT IS
AN INTERESTING POINT OF VIEW. To wit aM 4 J

B. SOURCE SAYS THAT CUBAN EXILES IN VENEZUELA

ARE "DISILLUSIONED" OVER THE OUTCOME OF THE CUBAN CRISIS BUT

THAT THE DIRECTORIO REVOLUCIONARIO ESTUDIANTIL (DRE,

REVOLUTIONARY STUDENT DIRECTORATE) AND ALPHA 66 INTEND
~ TO CONTINUE PROMOTING SMALL-SCALE ATTACKS ON CUBA.
4, FIELD DISSEM: STATE, CINCLANT, CINCARIB.

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